Television cabinets



Aug. 2, 1955 s. H. GOULD 2,714,625

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INVENTOR ATTORNEY United States Patent TELEVISION CABINETS idney H.Gould, New York, N. Y.

Application October 27, 1950, Serial No. 192,492

1 (,lalm. (Cl. 174-50) The present invention relates to cabinets and itparticularly relates to cabinets which are useful in connection withradio and television receivers.

Although the present invention will be described in its application totelevision receivers, it has a broad application to cabinets in generaland to articles of furniture of the character in which access is desiredat intervals to structures mounted therewithin.

It is among the objects of the present invention to provide a novel,inexpensive, durable, rigid and lasting article of permanent furniturewhich may be utilized in the household and which is particularlydesigned as a cabinet for radio or television receivers.

Another object is to provide a television or radio cabinet which mayconveniently be provided with an inside aerial, and which at the sametime will give convenient access to all sides of the radio or televisionreceiver and which will simultaneously serve as an article of furniture.

Still further objects and advantages will appear in the more detaileddescription set forth below, it being understood, however, that thismore detailed description is given by way of illustration andexplanation only and not by way of limitation, since various changestherein may be made by those skilled in the art without departing fromthe scope and spirit of the present invention.

In accomplishing the above objects, according to one embodiment of thepresent invention, it has been found most suitable to provide an insidemetal framework or skeleton, upon which are detachably mounted thefacing panels, which may be of wood but which also may be of plastic ormetal, to form the exterior faces of the cabinet. These panels aredetachably mounted so that they may be readily removed from the insideof the frame or skeleton structure to enable ready access to thetelevision or radio set maintained therein.

In the preferred construction, the internal frame may also be of such anature to serve as a proper aerial or condenser for the radio ortelevisidn...

With the foregoing and other objects in view, the invention consists ofthe novel construction, combination and arrangement of parts ashereinafter more specifically described, and illustrated in theaccompanying drawings, but it is to be understood that changes,variations and modifications can be resorted to which fall within thescope of the claim hereunto appended.

In the drawings wherein like reference characters denote correspondingparts throughout the several views:

Fig. 1 is a front elevational view of a cabinet according to the presentinvention, with the doors closed.

Fig. 2 is a side elevational view of the cabinet of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a front elevational view of the cabinet of Fig. 1 with thedoors open, showing the television receiver and the sound box.

Figure 4 is a transverse, horizontal sectional view upon the line 4-4 ofFig. 2.

Fig. 5 is a vertical transverse sectional view taken upon the line 55 ofFig. 1.

Fig. 6 is a corner perspective view showing the internal metal frameworkwhich is designed to hold the outside panelling as well as the interiorstructure.

Fig. 6a is a top plan view of a fragmentary portion of one of the metalbeam members of the metal framework, illustrating how the electricalcircuit may be broken.

Fig. 7 is a fragmentary horizontal sectional view upon the line 77 ofFig. 1 upon an enlarged scale as compared to Fig. 1.

Fig. 8 is a vertical cross sectional view similar to Fig. 5 but upon amuch larger scale, better to show the detail.

Referring to Figs. 1 to 3, there is shown a cabinet A having the frontdoors B, the standard C and the interior picture or tube panel D andsound panel E of a television set.

Within the cabinet A is a metal framework F. As shown best in Fig. 6,the framework F consists of the front and back U or J cross sectionbeams 10 and 11.

The top frame is also provided with the end or side members 12, whichmay be of U or J-cross-section.

The corner vertical members 13 in front and 14 in the rear carry the topframe 1il11-12 and they also are mounted upon the bottom frameconsisting of the front member 15, the side member 16 and the rearmember 17.

The members 15, 16 and 17 are of U or J-cross-section as are also thecorner members 13 and 14.

Intermediate of the legs 13 and 14 are the front cross bars 18 and therear cross bars 19, which may be of U- cross-section with the U turneddownwardly.

Extending across and supported upon the horizontal members 18 and 19 arethe supports 29 having the outturned flanges 21, which are mounted uponthe members 18 and 19.

The members have the elevated portion having the mounting openings 30for the television or radio receiver and, as shown best in Fig. 7, theflanges 21 may be welded, as indicated at 31, to the top faces 32 and 33of the cross members 18 and 19.

As shown best in Figs. 5 and 8, the base or stand member C has thevertical legs in front and 41 at the side, which carry the base 42. Thebase 42 is supported upon the legs 40 by two front brackets 43 and twoside brackets 44.

The front brackets 43 (see Fig. 8) have the vertical flange 45, thehorizontal top flange 46 and the web 47. The front flange is mounted bythe screws 48 to the leg member 40. The web 43 is mounted by the screws49 to the leg 41. The top flange is mounted by the screws 50 to the base4-2. The brackets 44 have the top flange 51 mounted by the screws 52 tothe rear 53 of the base 42.

The web 54 of the bracket 44 is mounted by the screws 55 upon the sidelegs 41.

The base member 42. is grooved at 56 to receive the panel 57.

The long legs or flanges 6?: of the members 15 and 17 are held down bythe screws 61 to the base member 42, as shown in Fig. 8.

The front panel 62 is mounted by the screws 63 in the opening 64 to theface 65 of the cross member 15.

The side panels 66 are mounted by the screws 67 in the mounting opening68 to the face 69 of the beam members 16 at the bottom of the cabinet.

As shown in Fig. 6, the openings '76 receive the screws 61, which extenddownwardly through the flanges 60.

At the top of the cabinet the top panel is mounted by the screws 76 uponthe flange 77 of the members 10, 11 and 12. These screws 76 extendthrough the openings 78 in the members 11 and 12.

The base of the forward beam member 10 has openings 80 to receive thescrews 81, which engage the top portion of the front panel 62. The sidepanels 66 are engaged by the screws 82, which extend through theopenings 83.

The top panel 75, the front panel 62 and the side panel 66 are readilyattached by the screws 63, 67, 76, 81 and 82 and they are readilydetached by removing the screws.

For example, by removing the top panel 76, ready access may be obtainedto the framework of Fig. 6 from above through the opening 84. Similarly,ready access is obtained by the opening 85 to the side of the frame ofFig. 6 and side panels 66. I

The front panel 62 has the openings for the glass front 91, which maytake the form of the front of a television tube. The front panel 62 alsohas the opening 92, which may receive a suitable loud speakerarrangement, indicated in part at 93 in Fig. 8.

As shown in Fig. 8, the extra members 94, 95 and the moulding 96, 97,98, 99, and 101 may be utilized to give an artistic appearance to thecabinet structure.

The doors, as shown in Fig. 7, may be hinged at 102 to the side panels66 and they may be readily moved outwardly, as shown in Fig. 3, toexpose the television receiver D and the sound box E.

The doors B may be provided with the swinging handles 103 and 104.

The frame of Fig. 6 may be so arranged as to serve conveniently as anaerial for a television or radio receiver and, if desired, to giveproper reception, various of the beam members 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15,16, 17, 18,

19 and 20 may be so connected and insulated from one i) another as togive the desired characteristics.

It will be noted that the various wood facing members, such as the base42, the front panel 62, the side panel 66 and the top panel 75, may bereadily removed by removing the screws to enable access to the interiorof the cabinet.

As shown, the metal cabinet of Fig. 6 serves as a frame upon which theentire structure may be readily mounted.

Although the base 42 and the facing members 62, 66 and 75 are desirablyof wood, they may also be of plastic or plywood or even of metal.

Although solid beams 10, 11, 12, 15, 16 and 17 may be employed forreception purposes, it has frequently been found desirable to split apair of opposite beams of the framework.

For example, one of the following pairs may be oppositely split by aninsulating material, namely the pair 10--11, the pair 12, the pair 15-17or the pair 16.

In slitting or inserting insulating members in these pairs, it isusually desired to connect the split together sirably the block 152,which may be rectangular in cross All 4 section, substantially fills thechannel 154 adjacent the ends 155 of the split beam 11.

If desired, instead of the split being in the pair 1011, it may also bein the pair 12 or in the pair 16 or in the pair 1517.

By this split arrangement it is possible to regulate the electricalimpulse to the mass of initial metal to achieve most satisfactoryelectrical characteristics.

Instead of the U or J-shaped channels, as shown for the beams 10, 11,12, 15, 16 and 17, it is possible to use other cross-section channels,such as V-cross-section channels or L-cross-section channels.

In respect to the chassis of the radio or television set, this may besuspended from the beams 10--11-12 or supported by the cross beams 20.

While there has been herein described a preferred form of the invention,it should be understood that the same may be altered in details and inrelative arrangement of parts within the scope of the appended claim.

Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of theinvention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, what isclaimed is:

An inside superimposed triple deck metal skeleton frame-panel coveredtelevision cabinet in which said skeleton is interrupted to serve as atelevision aerial, the top and bottom decks each being formed of four U-cross-section channel beams extending along the top and bottom fouredges of the frame with the bases of each beam being vertical and thelegs of the U-cross-section being horizontal and directed inwardly, thefront and back beams of the top deck being centrally interrupted andconnected by an insulating material, and the middle deck being formed byfront and back U cross section beams with the side flanges of each beingpositioned vertically and directed downwardly and the base member ofeach being positioned horizontally and said middle deck also includingtwo relatively wide inverted U-crosssection members spaced substantiallyinside of the sides of the skeleton and having horizontal feetextensions from the side edges of the ends of the legs of theU-crosssection mounted on the horizontal flanges of the angle beams andvertical angle beams extending along and connected to the corners ofeach of the decks, the panels being mounted on the vertical faces of thebeams forming the skeleton.

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